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I found it as a link on this site............ http://hhscott.com/Default.htm

maybe this will help........ htt://www.tubeaudio.ca/

Also good................. http://www.tubecad.com/

Maybe this will help............ http://www.audioxpress.com/resource/audioclass/index.htm

Did anyone attend the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest last weekend? I went last year but missed it this year. Here's the link to coverage by Six Moons... http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/Denver/denver_4.html

GREAT DISCUSSION .. thank you all... Good to see Erik back RB

Last year I attended the Rocky Mountian Audio Fest. This audio show is devoted to 2 channel audio reproduction and my intention at the show was to track down some tube equipment that I have not had the opportunity to listen to. At that time Rogue Audio was looking good to me. Anyway my big surprise was a solid state system by Odyssey Audio. This equipment was very tube-like in it's presentation. The Rogue equipment was ok but the Odyssey ended up much higher on my list . I've been wondering if anyone here has listened to the Odyssey amp and if you were as impressed as I was. I found this auction on e-bay .... http://cgi.ebay.com/Odyssey-Stratos-Designed-by-Symphonic-Line-No-Reserve_W0QQitemZ5807363049QQcategoryZ39783QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem and others on Audigon... http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampstran&1131756053 Here's the link to this years R.M. Audio Fest (highly recommended).... http://www.audiofest.net/

audiogon.com http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampstube&1129610165

Try This: http://www.marchandelec.com/ec616.html

Leok I use the coin trick also.. I reason that the penny works best. The copper is soft and I help the spike a little on the speaker side of the penny. A little hammer work does nicely. This results with in blunt bulge on the floor side of the penny. The bulge is very slight so the penny still looks to be flat on the floor but the mass of the speaker is well concentrated on the small contact area of the bulge. The color of the penny coordinates well with the color of my floors. Besides I'm a tightwad so a nickel is out. Reg

here ya go.... on...www.audiogon.com http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?spkrfull&1115344937

Correct.. If the speaker box remains in place, then the speaker cone housed in it also remains motionless . The speaker cone moving against the air, can therefore move more air molecules. This results in a sound wave more consistent in magnitude and frequency to the electrical signal sent to the speaker by the amplifier. Energy loss by way of kinetic energy applied to the speaker box is eliminated.

Here is a humble attempt at the physics behind coupling the speakers to the floor. Air has mass and therefore when the speaker cone pushes against it the air pushes back. Newton explained it this way: For each force applied to an object an equal and opposite force is applied. The cone applies force to the air molecules and the air molecules apply and equal force in the reverse direction. Now its true that the combined mass of the speaker and the box it is housed in is much greater than the air so the speaker remains in place. Ok so far. Well in theory the speaker may move a little in response the opposing force of the air. Especially if the speaker box is sitting on a rug. You can apply force with your hand (large mass) to the speaker and push it along the surface of the rug with ease. It would be of course be a very small a movement when the force is applied by the air (small mass). So small is the movement, it would be difficult to measure. However the movement of the speaker box small as it is would be subtracted from the extension of the speaker come. So.... if the speaker box is anchored to the floor by its own mass pushing 3 or 4 pointed spikes through the rug and into the wooden floor it would even resist moving if you applied force with your hand. Now when the speaker cone is moving against the air there can be no cone extension loss due to speaker box movement. That's the best I can do toward explaining. Others can take it from here.

They remind me of these; http://www.enjoythemusic.com/rockymtn2004/warnke/

Big reviews for this new to market integrated tube amp. http://www.upscaleaudio.com/view_category.asp?cat=36 Has anyone tried it or planing to? Avalible in 2 tube flavors, EL and KT Reg B